Elastic face - an anatomy-based biometrics beyond visible cue

This paper describes a face recognition method that is designed based on the consideration of anatomical and biomechanical characteristics of facial tissues. Elastic strain pattern inferred from facial expression can reveal an individual's biometric signature associated with the underlying anat...

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Published inProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004 Vol. 2; pp. 19 - 22 Vol.2
Main Authors Yong Zhang, Kundu, S.J., Goldgof, D.B., Sarkar, S., Tsap, L.V.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2004
Subjects
Anatomical structure
Biometrics
Capacitive sensors
Design engineering
Face recognition
Facial animation
Fingerprint recognition
Finite element methods
Muscles
Pattern recognition
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Summary:This paper describes a face recognition method that is designed based on the consideration of anatomical and biomechanical characteristics of facial tissues. Elastic strain pattern inferred from facial expression can reveal an individual's biometric signature associated with the underlying anatomical structure, and thus has the potential for face recognition. A method based on the continuum mechanics infinite element formulation is employed to compute the strain pattern. Experiments show very promising results. The proposed method is quite different from other face recognition methods, and its advantages and limitations, as well as future research for improvement are discussed.
ISBN:0769521282
9780769521282
ISSN:1051-4651
2831-7475
DOI:10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333969